On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, compdoc <compdoc@hotrodpc.com> wrote:

I've been working with VMs for a while now and have tried various ways to
set up guests. Block devices can be done with or without LVM, although I've
stopped using LVM on my systems these days.

Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM?  I've found it to be useful for allocating disk space to to KVM for virtual machines.  I usually set up logical volumes on a separate volume group as "block devices" for the virtual machine to use.  If there's an issue with this, I'd like to know about it.